Reply #16: Intelligent design is the new name for creationism, according to a 2007 court ruling

[RainDog]

when presenting testimony about the possibility of teaching "intelligent design" in the high school, a court in Dover PA learned that the information presented for intelligent design was all derived from information that had been presented as creationism. Those trying to push creationism in the classroom simply changed the name to make it sound somewhat less idiotic.

In one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a federal judge barred a Pennsylvania public school district Tuesday from teaching “intelligent design” in biology class, saying the concept is creationism in disguise.

U.S. District Judge John E. Jones delivered a stinging attack on the Dover Area School Board, saying its first-in-the-nation decision in October 2004 to insert intelligent design into the science curriculum violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

The ruling was a major setback to the intelligent design movement, which is also waging battles in Georgia and Kansas. Intelligent design holds that living organisms are so complex that they must have been created by some kind of higher force.

Jones decried the “breathtaking inanity” of the Dover policy and accused several board members of lying to conceal their true motive, which he said was to promote religion.

(that's a quote off msnbc at the time of the ruling.)

NOVA did a program on the entire case that it definitely worth watching. here's a link

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/intelligent-design-trial.html

Every claim that creationists have made to argue intelligent design have all been discredited by scientists who are leaders in their fields - in biology, geology...even physics.

It is a lie to claim irreducible complexity, which scientists demonstrated in the PA trial, as well.